Quotes About Rituals

You'll wear the taweez and drink Zam Zam, but you'll also read.

Dicen que los pueblos primitivos experimentaban la noche con tanto miedo de que el Sol no volviera a salir, que cuando lo hacía, celebraban con cantos, bailes y bebidas fermentadas. Con máscaras, risotadas y un ritmo percusivo que se festejaba a sí mismo, con el color y el brillo de la luz trasladado al sonido, al movimiento... Pero ¿no era todo círculo? ¿La vida no era un círculo?

Practically everywhere the central point of these festivals lay in exuberant sexual licence, which swamped all family life and its venerable traditions; the most savage bestialities of nature were unleashed, including that atrocious amalgam of lust and cruelty which has always seemed to me the true witch's broth.12

Not only Christianity with its symbols of salvation, but all religions, including the primitive with their magical rituals are forms of psychotherapy which treat and heal the suffering of the soul, and the suffering of the body caused by the soul.

Their rituals minimized the friction in this transition to depth, allowing them to go deep more easily and stay in the state longer. If they had instead waited for inspiration to strike before settling in to serious work, their accomplishments would likely have been greatly reduced.

Rule #1 taught you how to integrate deep work into your schedule and support it with routines and rituals designed to help you consistently reach the current limit of your concentration ability.

The key to developing a deep work habit is to move beyond good intentions and add routines and rituals to your working life designed to minimize the amount of your limited willpower necessary to transition into and maintain a state of unbroken concentration

This strategy suggests the following: To make the most out of your deep work sessions, build rituals of the same level of strictness and idiosyncrasy as the important thinkers mentioned previously. There's a good reason for this mimicry. Great minds like Caro and Darwin didn't deploy rituals to be weird; they did so because success in their work depended on their ability to go deep, again and again

Their rituals minimized the friction in this transition to depth, allowing them to go deep more easily and stay in the state longer.

most out of your deep work sessions, build rituals of the same level of strictness and idiosyncrasy as the important thinkers mentioned previously.

With this in mind, the six strategies that follow can be understood as an arsenal of routines and rituals designed with the science of limited willpower in mind to maximize the amount of deep work you consistently accomplish in your schedule.

Much of Christmas' beauty is in its sameness. The same traditions. The same meals. The same songs. The same story. Yet each Christmas is a little different.

To ward off these disasters, they spent a whole lot of time trying to keep their gods happy via a number of complex rituals, many involving copious amounts of sex ("the gods wish us to have sex" is the oldest pickup line in the world).

Many attenders, lacking any understanding about the content or purposes of worship, assume that the routines and rituals that occur in worship services constitute the substance of worship. Consequently

The issue now and during the next decade is access to the center of gravity of the technocracy, the leading universities that not only teach subjects but train you in the social rituals that allow you to belong to the technocracy.

Superstitions add texture to life.

My lady," he said quietly. "Never do that again," she whispered. "Stay with me," he asked. "Where would I go?" He smiled then. She rolled her eyes and went back to the rites.

Christianity, the most composite of all religions. Why let a rival god, even a small one, die when you can turn him into a demon and rummage through his rites and holidays for the bits you can scavenge to attract his worshippers?

The word 'tradition' covered it all, as it covered so many things, some useful, some foolish.

January 8 has been a lucky day for me. I have started all my books on that day, and all of them have been well received by the readers. I write eight to ten hours a day until I have a first draft, then I can relax a little. I am very disciplined. I write in silence and solitude. I light a candle to call inspiration and the muses, and I surround myself with pictures of the people I love, dead and alive.

navegación y los cuatro días de ceremonias, en los que los devotos acuden en masa a pagar sus mandas y promesas.

templos para hacer sus ofrendas, girar las ruedas de oración, y encender

He maintained that magic, like cooking and religion, was a particularly feminine affair...

Las fechas son importantes y también los rituales, porque les dan significado y belleza a los actos humanos y ayudan a fijar los eventos en la memoria.